[In the Hunan region, a Chinese mother and her children; this was once her home and destroyed by Japanese bombing. This group of photographs was taken by a United Nations journalist between April 1945 and April 1946.
[In a refugee camp in Shanghai, a reclining woman was injured by a Japanese bomb and her only son was killed on the way from guiyang in guizhou to Shanghai.]
[In Qingdao, Shandong Province, a group of children who pick up rags are showing Western reporters the flour they found in the freight yard of the railway station, which is scraped out of the ground.] 】
In Hankou, Hubei Province, an elderly Chinese woman lives in a Buddhist temple that was bombed by the Japanese; her house was destroyed by the Japanese bombing five months ago. 】
[In Hunan, this woman's name is Pan Fen; the child in her arms is four years old and suffers from a disease.] She collected a basket of weeds and sorghum stalks to supplement the family's food. 】
[Hengyang, Hunan, a family in a small village; mother and son are preparing to eat a cooked weed dinner.] 】
In the Shanghai Public Concession, eight German and Austrian refugees live in one house. Clothes are hung from the ceiling to save space. 】
[Hengyang, Hunan, an American Presbyterian hospital that was once destroyed.] Hospital cooks are handing out leftover rice to people who are homeless every day, and thousands of people in the Hengyang area die of starvation during this time.
[Refugees in the open space of a village in the Hunan region.] The village was almost completely destroyed by Japanese troops. Chinese Memory, 1945-1946. Source: Unintended Archives